I wanted to share with you some fun holiday cards I’ve made and some that I have receive. I have just a couple here. You can click here to see all of them.
Tag: Cut and Emboss
Thrifty Thursday 12-18-08
Here is a fun idea to put your Big Shot to good use. I love to let the kids make little gifts for their friends at Christmas time. This year I was so excited because I knew the Big Shot would make it so easy and very cost effective. 
My boys had fun creating these cute Christmas gifts for their friends. Here are a few pictures.
The basic idea is really easy all you need is 1/4 sheet of paper plus some scraps for the punches. Then you need the little bags and some ribbon.
We used the Stampin’ Up! Exclusive Top Note Die to cut out the toppers then scored them the short way and folded them in 1/2.
We filled the little bags with treats and stapled them to the back of the topper. Then I tied the ribbon around it. We used the scallop punch, the 1 3/8 Circle Punch and the 1 1/4 Circle Punch to create our little tags. 
The boys each choose 2 favorites from the Hostess set “Deer Friends” and colored the stamps to get the great colors. We used just one Stampin’ Dimensional on the bottoms so that you could slip the ribbon off the top and get to the treats. 
The boys had a lot of fun making them and especially loved using the big shot. It was a fun evening. Sorry it was so late getting this post up but we had to finish all of our projects.
I think we made about 50 in about 2 hours. Hope you enjoyed this and have fun making your own treat bags.
Wacky Wednesday 12-10-08
Wacky Wednesday- Big Shot Snowflake
Today was crazy because it was club and of course things did not go according to plan, but here is my Wacky Wednesday Project. It’s actually really simple. I came up with it from the circles that are folded in half when you cut out your pendent dies. You would add them to your banners when you make them. So I decided to try it with the snowflake die.
- First you need to cut out 3 of the snowflakes with your Big Shot.
- Then you have to fold them in half. This is actually the tricky part. I start by folding both the edges in half then I fold the centers over to meet each other and press in the center. This leaves just a little part on each side to finish folding.
- Once all off your pieces are folded you need to unfold one of them and apply glue. I use the two way glue pen.
- Next I apply half off one of the snowflakes to each side. Then apply glue to one side of the two remaining pieces and put them together.
- When you are done you should have a 3 dimensional snowflake. You can hang a piece of silver or gold cord from them to let them hang. I put them in my Christmas Tree and they look great. Hope you have fun with this one. My kids love it.
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So Shelli Entry
I know you may have seen this in my projects for my upcoming Holiday Extravaganza event but I wanted to enter it into the soshelli contest so I thought I would post it again. I just think it turned out so cute.
Inside the Card
New Samples
I’ve added new Fall samples & Club samples be sure to check them out. I even added a few more Halloween samples. It’s easy just click on the links below.
Halloween
Fall Samples
Club Cards
